Fall 2023 Course Descriptions

Offers a two-semester approach to the First Writing Requirement. This sequence allows students to take more time, in smaller sections and with support from the Writing Center, practicing and reinforcing the activities that are central to the first-year writing course. Like ENWR 1510, ENWR 1505-06 approaches writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Students contribute to an academic conversation about a specific subject of inquiry and learn to position their ideas and research in relation to the ideas and research of others.  Instructors place student writing at the center of course, encourage students to think on the page, and prepare them to reflect on contemporary forms of expression.  Students read and respond to each other’s writing in class regularly, and they engage in thoughtful reflection on their own rhetorical choices as well as those of peers and published writers.  Additionally, the course requires students to give an oral presentation on their research and to assemble a digital portfolio of their writing.

001 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Writing about Work
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (CAB 066)
Claire A Chantell
 
002 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Writing about Work
MW 02:00PM-03:15PM (CAB 042)
Claire Chantell
 
003 -- Writing about Culture/Society
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM (BRN 203)
Patricia Sullivan
 
004 -- Writing about Culture/Society
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 203)
Patricia Sullivan
 
005 -- Writing about Identities - Literacy Narratives
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (CAB 042)
Kate Kostelnik
 
006 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Popular Culture
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (CAB 066)
David Coyoca
 
007 -- Writing about Identities - Literacy Narratives
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM (CAB 042)
Kate Kostelnik
 
008 -- Writing about Culture/Society - The Art of Protest
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM (CAB 042)
Amber McBride
 
009 -- Writing about Identities - Identity Politics
MWF 02:00PM-02:50PM (CAB 066)
Rhiannon Goad
 
010 -- Writing about Identities - Identity Politics
MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM (CAB 056)
Rhiannon Goad

Approaches writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Students contribute to an academic conversation about a specific subject of inquiry and learn to position their ideas and research in relation to the ideas and research of others.  Instructors place student writing at the center of course, encourage students to think on the page, and prepare them to reflect on contemporary forms of expression.  Students read and respond to each other’s writing in class regularly, and they engage in thoughtful reflection on their own rhetorical choices as well as those of peers and published writers.  Additionally, the course requires students to give an oral presentation on their research and to assemble a digital portfolio of their writing.

001 -- Writing about Identities
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM (CAB 056)
Henrietta Hadley
 
003 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Definitions and Boundaries
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM (BRN 310)
Lucas Martínez
 
005 -- Writing about Science & Tech
TR 05:00PM-06:15PM (BRN 310)
Maggie Marangione
 
006 -- Writing about Science & Tech - Writing Material: A Scientific Approach to Artful Communication
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM (BRN 330)
Heidi Nobles
 
007 -- Writing about Identities - Writing about Bodies
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM (BRN 334)
Rynx Schulz
 
008 -- Writing and Community Engagement - Writing About Labor
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM (CAB 064)
Piers Gelly
 
009 -- Writing about Identities
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (CAB 044)
Devin Donovan
 
010 -- Writing about Science & Tech - Citizen Science
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (BRN 332)
Cory Shaman
 
011 -- Writing and Community Engagement - Writing About Labor
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM (BRN 332)
Piers Gelly
 
012 -- Writing about Culture/Society
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM (CAB 594)
Jon D'Errico
 
014 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Humor as Culture
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 312)
Regan Schadl
 
015 -- Writing about Identities
MWF 03:30PM-04:20PM (CAB 111)
Henrietta Hadley
 
016 -- Writing about Identities - Aliens & Identity
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (BRN 334)
Charity Fowler
 
017 -- Writing about Identities
MW 02:00PM-03:15PM (BRN 332)
Devin Donovan
 
018 -- Writing about the Arts - Rap as an Art Form
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM (CAB 044)
Jason Nabi
 
019 -- Writing about Culture/Society - The Rhetoric of Empathy
TR 05:00PM-06:15PM (BRN 330)
Tochi Eze
 
020 -- Writing about Science & Tech - Technology & Social Change
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM (BRN 330)
Eric Rawson
 
022 -- Multilingual Writers
MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM (BRN 312)
Davy Tran
 
024 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Argument & Civic Participation
MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM (BRN 332)
George Abry
 
026 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Writing Beyond Doom
MW 02:00PM-03:15PM (BRN 310)
Sophia Zaklikowski
 
027 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Writing Beyond Doom
MW 05:00PM-06:15PM (BRN 334)
Sophia Zaklikowski
 
028 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Rewriting UVA: Race, Sex, and Public History
TR 05:00PM-6:15PM (CAB 211)
John Modica
 
029 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Writing about Mental Health
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 330)
Abigail Puckett
 
031 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Writing about Landscape
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM (BRN 332)
Shalmi Barman
 
032 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Language, Policy, and Politics
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (BRN 312)
Kate Natishan
 
033 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Folk Culture, Identity and Society
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (BRN 312)
Aindrila Choudhury
 
034 -- Multilingual Writers
MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM (BRN 310)
Davy Tran
 
035 -- Writing about Culture/Society
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM (CAB 594)
Jon D'Errico
 
036 -- Writing about Culture/Society
MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM (BRN 330)
Dana Little
 
037 -- Writing about the Arts - Writing about/as Adaptation
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM (BRN 312)
Sam Pfander
 
040 -- Writing about Identities - Aliens & Identity
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (BRN 334)
Charity Fowler
 
042 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Writing Into Ethics
MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM (BRN 330)
Derek Cavens
 
043 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Rhetorics of Storytelling Across Media and Cultures
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (CAB 594)
Sethunya Mokoko
 
044 -- Writing about Digital Media - Exploring the Present
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM (BRN 332)
Jeddie Sophronius
 
045 -- Writing about Science & Tech - Technology & Social Change
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM (BRN 310)
Eric Rawson
 
046 -- Writing about Culture/Society
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM (BRN 334)
Dana Little
 
047 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Writing about Money
MW 02:00PM-03:15PM (PV8 108)
Katherine Cart 

050 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Rhetorics of Storytelling Across Media and Cultures
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (BRN 330)
Sethunya Mokoko
 
051 -- Writing about Culture/Society
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM (BRN 310)
Keith Driver
 
052 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Definitions and Boundaries
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM (BRN 330)
Lucas Martínez
 
053 -- Writing about Digital Media - Exploring the Present
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM (BRN 310)
Jeddie Sophronius
 
054 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Language, Policy, and Politics
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (BRN 312)
Kate Natishan
 
056 -- Writing about the Arts - Writing Down the Grave
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (BRN 310)
Hodges Adams
 
057 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Tabletop Games, Culture, and Community
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (WIL 244)
Chandler Jennings
 
058 -- Writing about the Arts - Writing about Disney
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (BRN 330)
Jared Willden
 
059 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Writing Into Ethics
MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM (BRN 334)
Derek Cavens
 
060 -- Writing about Culture/Society - The Rhetorics of Apocalypse
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 334)
Coby-Dillon English
 
061 -- Writing about Science & Tech - Citizen Science
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (BRN 330)
Cory Shaman
 
062 -- Writing about Culture/Society
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM (BRN 334)
Keith Driver
 
063 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Tabletop Games, Culture, and Community
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (BRN 334)
Chandler Jennings
 
064 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Writing about Money
MW 05:00PM-06:15PM (BRN 332)
Katherine Cart
 
066 -- Writing about the Arts - Writing about Horror
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 312)
Olivia Barrett
 
067 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Slowing Down
TR 05:00PM-06:15PM (BRN 203)
Christian Carlson
 
068 -- Writing about Identities - Poetic Fragments: Pushing the Boundary of Genre
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (CAB 107)
Kaitlyn Airy
 
071 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Writing about Film
MW 06:30PM-07:45PM (BRN 312)
Tanner Eckstein
 
072 -- Writing about Culture/Society - The Personal Essay
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM (BRN 203)
Xiwen Wang
 
073 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Imagining Academia
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (BRN 332)
Kathryn Webb-Destephano
 
074 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Quiet Soundings: Rhetorics of Curiosity
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (CAB 036)
Makshya Tolbert
 
075 -- Writing about the Arts - Writing about Sound
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM (BRN 332)
Kathryn Holmstrom
 
076 -- Writing about the Arts - Encountering the Self
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (CAB 107)
Nial Buford
 
077 -- Writing about Identities - Writing about Change
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 330)
Jack Bradford
 
078 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Queering the Narrative
TR 06:30PM-07:45PM (BRN 312)
Reese Arbini
 
080 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Writing about Writing
MW 05:00PM-06:15PM (BRN 312)
Alex Buckley
 
081 -- Writing about Digital Media - Writing About Video Games
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM (BRN 312)
Caroline Ford
 
082 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Public Memory
MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM (CAB 064)
Sarah Richardson
 
083 -- Writing about the Arts - Rap as an Art Form
MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM (BRN 312)
Jason Nabi
 
085 -- Writing about the Arts - Encountering the Self
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (BRN 310)
Nial Buford
 
086 -- Writing about the Arts - Writing about Sound
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (BRN 310)
Kathryn Holmstrom
 
087 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Writing Into Ethics
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM (BRN 312)
Derek Cavens
 
088 -- Writing about the Arts - Public Memory
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM (CAB 111)
Sarah Richardson
 
089 -- Writing about Culture/Society - The Archive and Me: Writing Through the Archive
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 332)
Lauren Parker
 
090 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Writing About Love
MW 05:00PM-06:15PM (BRN 330)
Allison Gish

001 -- TR 12:30PM-01:45PM (BRN 334) - Writing about Housing Equity
Kate Stephenson

Why do we eat what we eat? Do poor people eat more fast food than wealthy people? Why are Cheetos cheaper than cherries? Do you have to be skinny to be hungry? By volunteering at the UVA Student Garden, Morven Kitchen Garden, UVA Community Food Pantry, Loaves and Fishes, or the PVCC Community Garden and using different types of writing, including journal entries, forum posts, peer reviews, and formal papers, we will explore topics like food insecurity, food production, hunger stereotypes, privilege, urban gardening, and community engagement.  

Community engagement courses depend on creating pathways between different kinds of knowledge that enable us to learn with our minds, hearts, and bodies. The classroom is not a place where we find the answer; instead, it is a space for inquiry where process rather than product prevails. We will explore first-hand the ways in which academic conversations—and civic conversations—emphasize questions rather than answers. We will redefine knowledge—where it originates, who creates it, and how it circulates—by seeing the community outside the classroom as a site of knowledge production. 

002 -- TR 02:00PM-03:15PM (BRN 330) - Writing about Food Justice
Kate Stephenson

Why do we live where we do? How does housing impact our access to education, food, medical care, and other resources? What can the local built environment tell us about access to housing? Why are some people homeless? What is affordable housing and why is there so little of it? By working at The Haven and/or The Eviction Helpline as well as using different types of writing, including journal entries, forum posts, peer reviews, and formal papers, we will explore topics like homelessness, affordable housing, privilege, food insecurity, the eviction crisis, systems of power, and community engagement.  

Community engagement courses depend on creating pathways between different kinds of knowledge that enable us to learn with our minds, hearts, and bodies. The classroom is not a place where we find the answer; instead, it is a space for inquiry where process rather than product prevails. We will explore first-hand the ways in which academic conversations—and civic conversations—emphasize questions rather than answers. We will redefine knowledge—where it originates, who creates it, and how it circulates—by seeing the community outside the classroom as a site of knowledge production. 

MW 01:00PM-01:50PM (MON 130)
Kenny Fountain

Discussion Sections: F 9:00AM (with Nick Scott), 10:00AM (with Nick Scott), 11:00AM (with Noah Beissel), and 12:00PM (with Noah Beissel).

Imagining and visualizing are key components of perceiving the world, remembering the part, and envisioning new futures. And words play an important role in how we imagine. That is, words make absence things present, bring to mind people, objects, and events remote in time or space, and allow us to conceive of possibilities that do not yet exist.

In this First Writing Requirement (FWR) course, we will explore how writers and researchers have investigated the imagination. To do this, we will read work from across several disciplines, from rhetoric and philosophy to cognitive science, history, and literature. As we do this, we will examine how these writers use verbal description, visual imagery, lively storytelling, compelling evidence, and persuasive argument. 

001 -- Writing about Identities
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (AST 265)
Tamika Carey
 
002 -- Writing about Culture/Society
MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM (BRN 332)
Jon D'Errico
 
003 -- Writing about Identities
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM (CAB 056)
Devin Donovan
 
004 -- Writing about Culture/Society
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM (BRN 312)
Charity Fowler
 
06 -- Writing about Science & Technology
MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM (CAB 364)
Eric Rawson

003 -- Writing Democratic Rights
T 06:00PM-08:30PM (BRN 332)
Stephen Parks

Students will study theories of democracy and work with global democratic advocates, as well as students located in internatioanal contexts.

004 -- Writing Human Rights
M 06:00PM-08:30PM (KER 317)
Stephen Parks

Students will study theories of human rights and work with global human rights advocates, as well as students located in internatioanal contexts.

007 -- Writing and Games
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM (BRN 312)
Kate Natishan

Play is essential to our growth. Games teach us how to move, how to balance, how to coordinate our hands and eyes, how to take turns, how to share, how to read people, how to strategize, how to problem solve, how to work as a team... Without games, there is no us.

Games play a central role in our social and private lives, whether we are spectators or players. They also have a massive cultural impact, sometimes in ways we don’t expect. In this class, we will examine the role games play in our lives and our culture, and we will explore the ways in which others write about games while developing our skills to do the same. Meets second writing requirement.

07 -- Rhetoric of Drugs
MWF 05:00PM-05:50PM (KER 317)
Rhiannon Goad

Drugs are a compelling influence on our social, political, and artistic lives. They affect how we eat, sleep, pray, play, and create. Yet, rhetorical analysis reveals that many popular assumptions about drugs and drug use rely on loose footing. In this course, students continue the ancient tradition of attending to the rhetorical dimension of drugs through a semester-long research project. 

009 -- Rhetorics of Personhood: Legality and Ethics  
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM (BRN 334)
Sarah Richardson

Objectives of this class are to investigate what it means to be a person, how a person valued in society, how marginalized communities are represented, and how the legal and ethical definitions impact personhood? We examine communities that have been oppressed because of legal allowances and pose ethical issues about how rhetoric is used to frame these discussions.

010 -- Writing in a Global World: Issues of Global Media
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM (KER 317)
Dana Little

Dissects how modern media and arts are produced and consumed across cultures. Using theoretical approaches to global media and communications, we will develop the skills necessary to critically analyze complex media practices and interpret and develop media messages across cultures, nations, and markets.

011 -- Race, Rhetoric, and Social Justice
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM (BRN 330)
Sethunya Mokoko

This course examines how the study of race, rhetoric, and social justice can help us make sense of our times and empower us to actively engage in the struggle for diversity, equity, and inclusion on our campus and in communities worldwide. The rhetorics and racialized identities will consist of indigenous peoples, African descent, Latinx, and social activism, including Counter-theory, decolonization initiatives., and intersectionality. 

TR 05:00PM-06:15PM (BRN 312)
Keith Driver

TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (FHL 215)
Patricia Sullivan

This course explores historical, theoretical, and practical conceptions of writing as technology. We will study various writing systems, the relation of writing to speaking and visual media, and the development of writing technologies (manuscript, printing presses, typewriters, hypertext, text messaging, and artificial intelligence). Students will produce written academic and personal essays, but will also experiment with multimedia electronic texts, such as web sites, digital essays/stories, and AI generated texts

TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (FHL 206)
Kate Sweeney

001 -- Book Editing and Publishing
MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM (CAB 332)
Heidi Nobles

002 -- Studies in Cultural Rhetorics
M 06:00PM-08:30PM (CAB 332)
Tamika Carey

TR 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 310)
Kate Kostelnik

In this course, we'll look at a variety of texts from academic arguments, narratives, and pedagogies, to consider what it means to write, communicate, and learn across cultures. Topics will include contrastive rhetorics, world Englishes, rhetorical listening, and tutoring multilingual writers. A service learning component will require students to volunteer weekly in the community.

TR 02:00PM-03:15PM (CAB 064)
Steph Ceraso

In this collaborative, project-based course, students will learn to script, design, edit, and produce an original podcast series. In addition to reading about and practicing professional audio storytelling techniques (e.g. interviewing, writing for the ear, sound design), each student will get to work with a team to produce an episode for the podcast series. No experience with digital audio editing is necessary. Beginners welcome!

TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (BRN 203)
Kate Stephenson

Why is everyone suddenly going to Portugal? Why do we travel? What is the difference between a traveler and a tourist?  Using different types of writing, including journal entries, forum posts, peer reviews, and formal papers, we will explore the world of travel writing.  Since we all write best about ideas we are passionate about, we will work together to generate engaging questions about the role of travel in our culture, as well as about specific books and essays. We will also investigate the world of tourism and consider the many ethical issues that arise in the exploration of our modern world. Essays will focus on students' own travel experiences

TR 02:00PM-03:15PM (BRN 332)
Cory Shaman

MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 310)
John T. Casteen IV

Develops proficiency in a range of stylistic and persuasive effects. The course is designed for students who want to hone their writing skills, as well as for students preparing for careers in which they will write documents for public circulation. Students explore recent research in writing studies. In the workshop-based studio sessions, students propose, write, and edit projects of their own design.